Archive for January, 2008

Five Getting-Started Blog Questions - ClickZ News

Five Getting-Started Blog QuestionsClickZ News, NY -3 hours agoYou're far better off using Moveable Type or WordPress to produce your first blog at a tenured, company-held domain name or, at the very least, …

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MySpace.com Snags MySpace.co.uk

In a story first seen at The Register, Myspace.com has reportedly won an arbitration proceeding against Total Web Solutions, the former owners of Myspace.co.uk.  TWS had operated a legitimate service and business on the domain and had owned the domain name since 1997 (precluding the Myspace.com trademark). However, because TWS was serving ads pertaining to […]

TrafficClub customers to be moved to DomainSponsor

Moniker announced today that all of their Domain Parking customers in the TrafficClub program are to be moved to DomainSponsor.From the announcement email: Due to other opportunities and future enhancements to our domain monetization strategy, we have decided to fully migrate all TrafficClub services to DomainSponsor effective January 31. On that day, we will convert […]

Google And ICANN Did Not Kill Domain Tasting, Domain Kiting and NSI Front Running DOA

Domain blogs have been buzzing about Google and ICANN’s recent move to “kill domain tasting”. Upon a closer look Domain Name News felt that initial reports were largely exaggerated .Naturally that exaggeration perpetuated through out the web with a myriad of other bloggers like Jay, Sahar, Brett, Elliot, John Levine and even ZDnet […]

SearchGuild Domain Auction At Sedo - Search Newz

SearchGuild Domain Auction At SedoSearch Newz, KY -4 hours agoJust like a strong domain name offers defensible traffic, so do those old links pointing at an old trusted site. If I had not already bought, ran, …

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Are Domain Names Recession-Proof? Probably Not, Next Question? - CircleID

Are Domain Names Recession-Proof? Probably Not, Next Question?CircleID, Canada -44 minutes agoI’m not a permabear so stay tuned for my someday-in-the-future article “Domain name aftermarket screaming BUY”. Hopefully it won’t be 10 years from now. …

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Access Your Computer Anytime and Save Energy with Wake-on-LAN - Lifehacker Australia

Access Your Computer Anytime and Save Energy with Wake-on-LANLifehacker Australia, Australia -13 minutes agoNow you just need to know your external IP address or have assigned a domain name to your home computer, and the MAC address of the computer you want to …

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GoDaddy Finalizes Super Bowl Ad - HostingTech.com

GoDaddy Finalizes Super Bowl AdHostingTech.com, KS -Jan 25, 2008The Go Daddy Group, Inc. is a domain name registrar with more than 22 million domains under management and 24-hour-a-day customer support. …

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ICANN Issues Plea for Independence From US Government

ICANN, the overseer of the internet’s addressing system, has made a plea to the US government to be freed from official control.In a lengthy report that was sent to the US Department of Commerce, ICANN argued that the objectives that were put in place by the US government to earn independence have been met faster […]

Fortune Magazine Covers DomainFest

DomainNameNews staff spotted former Business 2.0 and current Fortune Magazine writer Paul Sloan hard at work at the DomainFest cocktail parties this week. Sloan has penned a new story about the domain space that just hit the web. The article, “Are domain names recession-proof?“, focuses on the DomainFest auction and the results of the auction […]